Henry Thomas Marsh CBE FRCS (born 5 March 1950) is a British neurosurgeon and author, a pioneer of awake craniotomy techniques and of neurosurgical work in Ukraine. Marsh is the youngest of his parents' four children. His parents were the law reformer Norman Stayner Marsh (1913–2008) and bookseller Christiane "Christel" Christinnecke (1917–2000).

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery is a 2014 memoir written by Henry Marsh and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. The book details the author's career as a neurosurgeon. Marsh's father was a human rights lawyer and his mother a refugee from Nazi Germany. Marsh finished a bachelor's degree.

May 11, 2015 · Now he sat with his wife and son in the consulting room of Henry Marsh, a London neurosurgeon, looking at a scan of his brain, which showed a tumor growing near the base of his skull.

Jun 20, 2017 · When his son, William, was three months old, he underwent surgery to remove a brain tumour. Marsh, who had only been qualified as a doctor for four months, could only watch as a surgeon at...

Jan 4, 2015 · Marsh is unusually responsive to patients trapped in terrible predicaments, influenced by the trauma of his own son needing brain surgery at three months old.

Sep 14, 2022 · Henry Marsh has a reputation for frankness – with patients, colleagues, and about his own shortcomings as a neurosurgeon. Now he is a patient with a serious illness, he has become more honest with himself. Henry Marsh has just had a …

May 26, 2015 · GROSS: My guest is neurosurgeon Henry Marsh. His new memoir is called "Do No Harm." After we take a short break, he'll talk about what it was like for him as a parent when his son had a brain tumor and what he learned as a doctor from that terrifying experience.

May 26, 2017 · Marsh was drawn to the danger, a fascination with understanding the workings of the brain and a desire to treat the most serious illnesses. I ask if the brain tumour his son William was diagnosed...

Sep 23, 2018 · On today’s Desert Island Discs, the 68-year-old talks about his unusual route into medicine, and how his career was shaped by his experience as a parent after his son was diagnosed with a brain...

It was while working as a junior house offi cer that Marsh was dramatically introduced to neurosurgery, when his son was treated successfully for a brain tumour. Soon afterwards came his epiphany moment. “I witnessed a surgeon clipping a cerebral aneurysm and from that moment on I knew my future path.